SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter. Colin here, CEO of a startup, B2B SaaS, and raising a seed round right now. Take the meeting.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. These lay the foundation that enables your team to run as efficiently as possible.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode. Actually, two.

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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Revenue leakage is that amount of money from your customers which gets processed, but which does not end up in your account. They also work on potential solutions to plug the holes in their accounting processes which cause revenue leakage. The resulting flaws accumulate over time and can prove costly to your SaaS business.

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User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

Various factors could cause customer churn, including bad product-customer fit , poor user onboarding experience , poor customer service , and weak customer relationships. Reduce churn with proactive customer service. Book a demo now to learn more! Implement gamification to boost customer engagement.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In Dave’s words, “What is it about your product or service that the users say in their own words they love ?” I think SaaS businesses and subscription businesses are particularly bad at having vague, waffley headlines on their homepages,” he states. Stream the entire conversation or read the highlights below. Jump to highlights.

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User Pilot

APRIL 15, 2024

There are various types of customer pain points, including financial pain points, process pain points, productivity pain points, and support pain points. Ready to track, understand, and address customer pain points for your SaaS? Book a demo now. Benefits of addressing customer pain points: Improved customer experience.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Once users are in a position to invest in such a service, your SaaS should be the first that comes to mind. Anyone who searches for keywords related to your field should immediately come across your service. Integrating innovative software that can cull MRR values from CRM and payment processing systems is a valuable shortcut.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

They see it where SaaS companies might trade at 13 times, 15 times, 17 times trailing. Now, I usually give people a good book to read, which is Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World. They don’t want to p**s off management teams that face dilution from down rounds. This happens like this in public markets.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

This dynamic trio of SaaS experts share how to stay customer-centric and set yourself apart in today’s rapidly changing environment. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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Full Session

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Book a demo to learn more. Find underperforming areas, try out different designs, confirm what works, and make your site easier and faster to use with UX heatmap tools. With annual payment, you get 20% off. AI-powered insights: Automatically analyze open-ended responses using natural language processing. No worries!

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FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including software management, VAT and sales tax management, global payments, and consumer support. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. I love that.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. Here’s an example of OTE levels for a SaaS business hiring salespeople in the Bay Area: Table 2.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 12, 2022

This article is one such list, where we take a deep dive into cash flow modeling for SaaS businesses and the software that can help you do it. Why is cash flow modeling important for SaaS? However, not having a good idea of how much money is entering or exiting your business over time is always bad! Table of Contents.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

In SaaS, you can grow your revenue only if your churn rate is low, so retaining at-risk customers is crucial. The main factors contributing to at-risk customers include poor onboarding process , lack of product value perception, lousy customer support, unfixed bugs, and no learning materials, resource center, and FAQs.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 17, 2018

In this guide, I will teach you the fundamentals of Lead Qualification for inbound and outbound sales development, and give you actionable steps you can take to maximize your Revenue per Lead. Sales and Marketing Alignment is a trending topic and the role of Sales Development has been growing fast. What Is Lead Qualification?

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User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

It is also one of the central goals of the user experience design process. TL;DR User trust is a form of faith users have that your product or service will match their needs without compromise. Performing usability tests at different phases of your design process to help you identify and fix design problems. What is user trust?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded. If not now, then when?”

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. In this saas marketing strategy guide, we are going to tell you everything about saas marketing. What is SAAS marketing?

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. In fact, you’ll probably have to wait in line to even book a meeting to sign up. Bad pricing practices are easy excuses for customers to cancel. Thus, the early churn.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. Work smarter, not harder. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 19, 2022

There are various notification types you can use to keep your users engaged in SaaS. Product teams can use Userpilot to create notifications within minutes without writing a single line of code. What are the different notification types commonly used in SaaS? Userpilot enables you to create checklists code-free.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. Another collection of their customers actually turned their kitchens into service offerings.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. The benchmark customer churn for SaaS for SMBs is 5%. Transitioning to SaaS On January 1st 2020, we transitioned the company out of a strategic partnership (we were operating the platform under a non SaaS business model!).

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

But the support team are responsible for first response times, for things like NPS, whereas what we’re responsible for is, ultimately, outcomes.” Product teams can better improve and develop products when customer success has helped identify what customers need. I had poison ivy really bad.

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Upscope

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Below we'll cover what organisations are saying about super agents as one of the new customer service trends and then add Upscope's own view on happy super agents and the services they'll need. 4) New contact center jobs will be created; for example, data scientists, automation specialists, and application developers.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 17, 2020

These tools have a profound impact on free ing up team member time.? . That being said, if you apply the right tactics, supercharging your CS efforts can be a simple process. Take comfort in the fact that every CS team must start somewhere! Take comfort in the fact that every CS team must start somewhere! .

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. Dopple’s earliest customers are already seeing a 40% increase in conversions, and 71% of their visitors interact with 3D-enabled products. It starts with self service.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Before reading through yet another “Top-29 SaaS billing platforms” feature comparison post, decide how you want the billing tool to play with the rest of your operations stack. This post is part of an ongoing series for SaaS founders and CEOs on setting up their financial stack in a scalable manner.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 7, 2019

In this post we’re going to look at the management accounting side of multi-year SaaS deals that grow in value over time. Say you sign a three-year deal with a customer that ramps in payment structure: year 1 costs $1M, year 2 costs $2M, and year 3 costs $3M. Let’s take an example from this KPMG data sheet on ASC 606 and SaaS.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium in SaaS is old news. The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. Freemium appeared to be declining in popularity and, when it was in place, drove next to zero new ACV for most SaaS companies.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In Casey’s last essay, he covered the differences between regular SaaS companies and SaaS-like Networks. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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BrightBack

AUGUST 19, 2019

Organize your teams around the customer relationship. Leadership in sales, marketing and beyond must be motivated and incentivized to optimize the entire customer lifecycle – not just to close new bookings or upsells and renewals. Here are three ways to grow your business utilizing customer retention.

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